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Episode 1 | Historian Martha S. Jones on A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Martha S. Jones, Author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (University of Cambridge, 2018), which Eric Foner describes as transforming our “understanding of the evolution of citizenship in nineteenth-century America.” Jones is the […]
Episode 24: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by scholar and author Treva Blaine Lindsey Author of Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. (University of Illinois Press, 2017), which noted Historian Martha S. Jones describes as “Fresh research, illuminated by feminist theory” that “reveals how ‘New Negro Womanhood’ became a framework […]
Episode 23 | Black Women and the Pursuit of Happiness
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Bianca Williams Author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2018), which noted anthropologist A. Lynn Bolles describes as a “novel and innovative ethnography” that “pushes the boundaries of what anthropology can be considered […]
Episode 22 | Filmmaker John Akomfrah and the ‘Precarity’ of Black Genius
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by filmmaker John Akomfrah, A founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside his longtime collaborators David Lawson and Lina Gopaul; the trio later founded Smoking Dogs Films. Akomfrah’s groundbreaking film The Last Angel in […]
Episode 21 | White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by scholar and author Alisha Gaines, Author of Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy (UNC Press, 2017), which Jonathan Holloway describes as “nuanced examination of the many complicated layers that inform the ‘Black experience.” Gaines, who is Associate Professor of English at […]
Episode 20 | Fugitive Science, Black Freedom and Early African AmericanCulture
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by scholar and author Britt Rusert Author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (NYU Press), which Alondra Nelson has called “Groundbreaking Interdisciplinary Scholarship.” Rusert is Associate Professor of African American Studies in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of […]
Episode 19 | “No News Is Good News” – A Conversation with Phonte Coleman
A founding member of Little Brother, the lead vocalist of Foreign Exchange and an artists in his own right Phonte Coleman joins Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black Studio. Phonte discusses his new album No New is Good News, which address issues of aging and mortality, and talks about the […]
Episode 18 | Diasporic Blackness – The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by scholar and author Vanessa K. Valdes. Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the The City College of NewYork. Professor Valdes is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg(SUNY Press), as well as […]
Episode 17 | Alsarah and the Sounds of Nubia
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Musician and Ethnomusicologist Alsarah, lead singer and co-founder of Alsarah and the Nubatones, an East African retro pop music group that was in residence at Duke University.
Episode 16 | The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Margo Natalie Crawford Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Crawford is the author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and 21st Century Black Aesthetics (University of Illinois Press, 2017) and Dilution Anxiety and the Black […]
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